Eric Ludy Quotes

#1. God's mapmakers give no thought to their own desires or security. Instead, they eagerly spill themselves out as a fragrant offering to heaven.

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#2. Most people never realize that loneliness is a gift from God. Not only can it draw us closer to Jesus, it can teach us to cherish a long-awaited marriage relationship all the more.

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#3. The fire to pursue God, the zeal to know God, and the humility to allow God to do whatever He pleases with our lives.

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#4. When we pray in the name of Jesus, we carry the authority of heaven.

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#5. The way a man treats a woman, he explianed, is a relfection of his relationship with God. Thats why i say, a woman is the proving ground for a man. You can determine a mans quiality by watching him with a woman

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#6. Everything in this world is designed to oppose your forward movement!

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#7. Everything that originates from God will endure the test of time. Therefore, it is good to check out the origins of everything to make sure they were started by God.

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#8. Instead of applauding sex addict pastors, we need to tell them to either preach the Gospel with their lives or get out from behind that pulpit!

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#9. Purity is the gatekeeper for everything precious and blissful in God's kingdom.

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#10. Too many of the men today are mice, not men. Too many of the women of our age are vain, not valiant. We are paranoid of the battle, not productive in it. We are soft where we should be solid, and hard where we should be soft.

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#11. As for God, His way is perfect. PSALM 18:30

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#12. If there is no scent of Christ's love on someone, then they bear no evidence of true devotion to Christ.

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#13. The world is always in a hurry, but I teach My children patience. Live, expecting a full and joyous life. And learn to trust My perfect timing so that you may discover that all the pain found in waiting has a magnificent and awesome purpose.

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#14. When we leave the pen in His hands we will never be disappointed with the story of our lives.

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#15. You don't have to be a pastor to let your passion be felt and your voice heard. You just need to be willing to be the first one willing to die.

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#16. The gospel is not outward rituals and sacrifices, it is a living sacrifice. It is to have the laws of God written in our heart. It is to have a soft, listening, responding heart to God.

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#17. We've been so concerned about being cool, relevant, and fun that we have forgotten to be bread, light, and life to a hungry, dark, and dying world.

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#18. The emergent movement is creating a mushiness to the thinking patterns in Christianity today. It's like we really can't stand for anything.

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#19. The Word of God is a treasure map. That treasure map is the most valuable thing you have until you get to that treasure.

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#20. You're looking for counselors, there are 66 in the Bible.

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#21. A life spent wholly and completely upon Him is a life wholly and completely satisfied.

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#22. Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.

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#23. God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.

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#24. No matter how many rules we make for ourselves, rules don't create godly relationships. Only leaning on our faithful Father and longing to please Him with everything we do will set the stage for a beautiful romance!

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#25. A great life is not the result of a formula perfectly followed. Rather of a God wholly trusted.

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#26. The Greek meaning of the word "blessed" is "supreme happiness." [see Matthew 5:3-5]

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#27. Jesus didn't just give hugs; He also gave a hammer. Paul didn't just pass on holy kisses; he also tirelessly dealt out swift and holy kicks to the rear end of the ancient church. The Bible has the manly stuff intact, and that is why it is such a great mystery how it got lost in the modern church.

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#28. The principle is this: We must not allow anything into our life that feeds our point of weakness. A soldier doesn't dance through a mind field any more than we should play with a hand grenade. When the enemy's entry points are boarded up, it frees us to hear clearly the voice of our Commander.

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#29. I'm glad that our God is not the guy with a pony-tail who wants to toss a frisbee with His saints.

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#30. When you crash into the living God, the encounter is certain to renovate every square inch of your life's boat.

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#31. If God is going to write your loves story, He's going to first need your pen.

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#32. If we lean on a human love story as our primary source of fulfillment and happiness, well never find what we are looking for. But when we find our fulfillment in Jesus Christ, we are free to selflessly love our spouse instead of constantly thinking about our own needs and wants

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#33. Jesus says if you want to have me, you must give up that other thing that has you.

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#34. But the commission is now. The time to speak is when the Spirit of God boils the message so hot within you that it must come out. The time to write is when God Almighty presses his thumb against your heart and forces the words out like a steaming geyser.

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#35. Jesus was restrained by the Father to do only what the Father was doing, and You are to be restrained by the Spirit to do only what Jesus is doing!

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#36. Extravagant love, as in every generation before us, has been ridiculed and scorned. it is seen as wasteful and reckless overspending. But extravagant love, the offering of everything, the emptying of the pockets of our life, is the essence of true Christianity.

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#37. I won't give my heart to another girl until God shows me it's my wife.

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#38. Christianity = me moving out, God moving in.

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#39. The holy, all-loving, all-powerful, all-mighty, perfectly peaceful and joyful Life of God is waiting to be ours. It is a priceless gift that comes with only one condition: His Life can only be had in exchange for our own.

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#40. Even though my Sunday school upbringing had taught me that God loved me, inwardly I always suspected that maybe He was more interested in making me miserable than in blessing me.

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#41. Mr. Purity nodded and paused to take another sip of coffee. As you well know, my name has fallen into a state of great reproach. And with this declining opinion of my importance, I have become increasingly unattractive to most people today.

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#42. Fact is fact. Truth is Truth. It does not matter how you feel. We do not listen to our feelings. We believe the truth of God's word.

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#43. We need Christians who don't try to match God's words to their experience, but rather, whose experience is corrected, elevated, and altered by the Word's penetrating perfection.

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#44. Rather they built there entire lives around a relationship with Christ.

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#45. Make me little in mind, soft in heart, trusting in soul.

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#46. Heroes are made because they are moved. Not in their head, but in their heart.

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#47. Being a male capable of grunting, sweating, and not asking for directions, but not yet having conqured a women ... in our culture, that wasn't manhood, that was dorksville!

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#48. Don't try to build Me into your life anymore. Instead, build your life around Me.

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#49. Job 29 is about Job reflecting on his past before the calamity hit him to say this is the type of man I was. So, you want to know what God calls perfect and upright? Read Job 29, and you will understand what kind of man God esteems.

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#50. All my devotion is an insult to God unless every bit of my practical life squares with Jesus Christ's demands.

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#51. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, Jesus didn't do it the world's way. He came in and offended the world. He came in and did everything the wrong way.

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#52. God's mapmakers rely on Christ not cheap human tricks, to draw people to the truth.

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#53. I had a God who knew my every desire. He also knew how I would fall. And yet he was waiting on the other side of my failure and my shattered dreams with some dreams of his own ...

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#54. I don't even know her yet..but if she could see me right now, I'd want her to know that I love her

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#55. A true leader cannot be dependent on companionship for his or her security, but must learn to trust in God alone.

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#56. He isn't impressed with numbers or achievements like we are. He is moved by the daily act of surrender. He is stirred by our desire to know Him more.

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#57. Selfishness at the core is to think you have a special problem- a problem that God cannot deal with, that God didn't deal with at the cross. You do not have anything special that has been dealt out to you.

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#58. But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble.

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#59. I actually do propose open-mindedness, but open-mindedness to the Word of God.

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#60. My problem with the Emergent Church is not the questions they are bringing up, but the answers they are giving. They are making Christianity milky. They are making it so you can no longer define anything. There is no sound judgment allowed.

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#61. Don't expect others to understand or approve of your life. Be willing to look like a fool.

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#62. If you want to live the Christian life, you will have to realize that Someone Else has to be in control.

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#63. For a life to be fully yielded, it must wrestle the impossible and win.

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#64. Purity brings freedom, life, love, and a sense of stability and fortification for which every human heart longs.

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#65. We (need to) get completely out of the way and allow Him to live His life through us in whatever way he chooses.

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